New Order - "Blue Monday" (1983 - 12" version)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" (An alternatiive To Reality)
Soft Cell - "Memorabilia" (extended)
Tears For Fears - "Suffer The Children" (remix)
B Movie - "Nowhere Girl" (12" version)
The Lover Speaks - "Every Lovers Sign" (New extended mix)
Furniture - "Brilliant Mind" (extended mix)
Scritti Politti - "Absolute" (version)
Talk Talk - "Living In Another World" (extended mix)
The Lotus Eaters - "The First P" (12" version)
Japan - "Nightporter" (extended remix)
Bauhaus - "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (original 12" mix)
Killing Joke - "Love Like Blood" (version)
The Damned - "Eloise" (Extravagant mix)
The Mission - "Wasteland" (Anniversary mix)
Sisters Of Mercy - "Lucretia My Reflection" (extended remix)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Cities In Dust" (extended Eruption mix)
All About Eve - "Every Angel" (extended)
Jesus & Mary Chain - "April Skies" (12" version)
Spear Of Destiny - "Liberator" (extended mix)
The Fall - "Telephone Thing" (extended mix)
The Cure - "Hot Hot Hot!!!" (extended remix)
Simple Minds - "Up On The Catwalk" (extended version)
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Bring On The Dancing Horses" (extended mix)
Big Country - "In A Big Country" (Pure mix)
Prefab Sprout - "Faron Young" (Truckin mix)
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - "Cut Me Down" (extended remix)
Julian Cope - "The Greatness & Perfection Of Love" (remixes version)
The Psychedelic Furs - "Heartbeat" (New York remix)
Visage - "Frequency 7" (Dance mix)
Yello - "Bostich" (full lenght mix)
Jah Wobble, Jake Liebezeit & Holger Czukay - "How Much Are They?" (12" version)
Anne Clark - "Our Darkness" (remix)
Cabaret Voltaire - "Yashar" (John Robie mix 1)
Propaganda - "P Machinery"
Review: Following forays into the worlds of pop, dance and "groove", the popular 12"/80s series dons black mascara and delves into the world of alternative 80s pop. As with previous instalments, there's a veritable mix of classics, forgotten gems and so-so mixes spread over three CDs packed with Goth, synth-pop and new wave tracks. As ever, there are some much-owned (but nevertheless essential) cuts - "Blue Monday", "Bela Lugosi's Dead", "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" etc - as well as lesser-known delights from the likes of Cabaret Voltaire (the superb "Yashar"), Furniture, The Psychedelic Furs (the stuttering, edit-happy New York remix of "My Heart") and the Sisters of Mercy (a 10-minute version of Goth standard "Lucretia My Reflection").
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